Film festival

The 21st N.C. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival starts up Friday in Durham with 167 films screening over the course of the next week. Two prominent films – “Deep Run” and “Lazy Eye” – have North Carolina ties.

Hugh Morton exhibit

A new exhibit of photographs by Hugh Morton opens, featuring depictions of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to Grandfather Mountain, but also lesser-known photographs from Morton’s time as a soldier during WWII. Through Sept. 4, 2017.

Get your groove on

In its second year, this one-day Groove in the Garden festival has a great lineup of musicians – Hammer No More the Fingers and Matthew E. White for starters – plus food trucks, art, craft beer and more.

Bull City baseball

Don’t miss Baseball Card Family Day, a pre-game event featuring live music, food trucks, a “make your own baseball card” photo booth, Wool E. Bull and more. (That evening at DBAP, the special “Field of Hope” Bulls game donates proceeds to fight women’s cancers. A mobile mammography unit will be on-site. See rexhealth.com/fieldofhope for those details.)